Mexico suffers as its citizens leave for U.S.

Drug violence causes shiftin migrant demographics.
By Jason Buch
jbuch@express-news.net
Updated 11:43 p.m., Friday, March 4, 2011

The mass migration of Mexicans to the U.S. is not good for that country, said AgustĂ*n Escobar of Mexico's Center for Investigation and Higher Study in Social Anthropology Friday at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The country has to deal with large numbers of its citizens being removed from the U.S. and returned to Mexico, the rate of immigrants dying as they try to enter the U.S. is increasing and Mexico's households are hurt when breadwinners head to another country, Escobar said at the Bilateral Perspectives on Mexican Migration Conference at UTSA's Mexico Center.

And while many Mexicans working in the U.S. do send money back to their families, known as remittances, other Latin American workers send back more, Escobar said.

“When you look at what Mexican migrants send (home), you see that that amount is much lower than the Mexican (gross domestic product) per capita,â€